The 15-Minute Chili Recipe I make when I don’t want to cook | EASY & Quick Chili Recipe

This chili recipe is quick and easy to make for those days you don’t want to cook. Forget chopping, forget simmering, forget the dishes piling up – this chili is for the nights when your energy is low, but you still want a home-cooked hearty meal. This is the perfect weeknight chili that comes together quickly.
This ground beef recipe is *Lazy-approved*:Perfect for those nights when even lifting a spoon feels like a workout. It’s literally a low-effort, but maximum flavor weeknight dinner.
*Here’s the magic*: Grab your trusty store-bought chili mix, brown some ground beef, and raid your pantry for the good stuff – canned beans, diced tomatoes, and one pot. Toss it all together, let it simmer for 10 glorious minutes, and bam! You’ve got a satisfying, soul-warming chili that only took *15 minutes* to make.

Bonus points for topping it off with:
Creamy dollops of sour cream
A sprinkle of melty cheese
Fresh avocado & scallions
A dollop of hot sauce for the adventurous!

*INGREDIENTS*
1 lb lean ground beef
1 envelope of chili seasoning mix
1 can Rotel chiles and tomatoes (drained)
1 can of pinto beans (drained)
1 Tbsp tomato paste
1 Tbsp chopped chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (optional)
1 to 1 1/4 cups beef broth
*fresh garnishes & toppings of your choice*

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Okay, let me be real. I could probably be lazy  every single day because most of us are overworked   underpaid lack sleep and some of us probably  suffer from anxiety and depression so cooking some   elaborate meal for dinner breakfast or lunch is  just not what it’s cracked up to be so I’m going  

To show you the laziest quickest way I like to  make chili I’m also going to show you some things   I cook when I just don’t want to cook so here we  go okay so I’m going to start by getting my pound  

Of lean ground beef this is like an 8515 Ratio or  837 meat to Fat ratio and this is how I thought   it it’s frozen I add you could do cold water but  I kind of do like room temperature to warm and I  

Just place it in this bowl fill it up you want to  submerge it and then just set it on the counter   for a couple of hours until you can kind of like  squish it and it’s kind of thawed this is still  

Really cold but it’s a lot easier to work with  okay so the ingredients store-bought chili spice   mix I’m going to be using dehydrated minced onion  pinto beans a can of Rotel a cup of beef broth   I’m also using a tablespoon of tomato paste and  chopped chiple peppers and Adoba sauuce my ground  

Beef and a little bit of cooking oil I am going to  add maybe a tablespoon into the pan with my thawed   ground beef actually like I said it’s kind of cold  if you have it completely thawed with no chill on  

It this really cooks a lot quicker so I’m going  to tear open this package and sprinkle it all   over the ground beef here I’m adding my dehydrated  minced onion you could add fresh but I love just   dehydrated onion in this okay move it around  break it apart you want to Brown really well  

And let me show you this little chunk is still  frozen so just work that and let it Tha okay   tomato paste and chopped cheap whet peppers and  other oil sauce if you do not want to add spice  

To this then omit the Chaple pepp Peppers okay  mix that in and I kind of want a crust to build   at the bottom just like this now you don’t want it  to burn but I’m going to try to work quick because  

This is a quick lazy chili so now I’m going to  add my beef broth I added a cup of warm water   and a teaspoon and a half of beef bullion powder  to this okay so just move it around get everything  

Combined and now I’m going to start scraping  up the fond oh Rotel going in and I drained   that can pan by the way so again you want to mix  this and start picking up the fond at the bottom  

Of the pan that is Flavor that is great flavor  for a quick meal by the way so as you can see I   did a really good job scraping up the fond so I’m  adding my drained rinsed can of pinto beans and I  

Like to push that in so I don’t cut myself later  okay so give this a really good mix it’s already   simmering so what I’m going to do is combine  well and I think I want to add a little more  

Water so I’m I’m just going to use this little  bowl that I had the tomato paste and peppers in   and just add maybe like 1/4 cup of water again  combine that well and it’s already simmering so  

All I’m going to do is just place the lid over my  pan and let it simmer for an additional 5 to 10   minutes and then it’s done and that’s the lazy  quick chili that anyone can make you can also  

Double this recipe and meal prep it for later  use it’s really good when you’re feeling lazy   and you need to get dinner quick so let me show  you the other things I do when I don’t want to cook for lunch today I am going to be  making just a store-bought salad with  

Store-bought seasoned salmon and this is  kind of like this pack is kind of weird   to open here we go so this is already  seasoned it’s like like a citrus dill   salmon and all I’m going to do it’s thaw  is place it into my Air fryer here we go

Okay going into my Air  fryer let’s see I’ll do temp 380 I’ll start it for 5 minutes and then see if  it’s done if not I’ll take it a little longer   but it doesn’t take that long for the salad  I am using just a store-bought baby spinach  

Green salad with like a vinegarette um let’s  see open it this way and like I said this is   just something I do when I don’t want to cook  that’s the theme of this video just quick and easy   things that I can make or cook or put together  with store-bought ingredients and actually put  

My Bowl here and I’m just going to dump the salad  in there we go so good there we go and not all of   it that you can add extra garnishes if  you like this has like blue cheese and pecan I’ll go in with some cracked black pepper  

And I’m going to separate  this salad into two bowls carefully so one salad I think serves two  people well with salmon on top there we go   perfect so this is almost done let’s see oh  yeah it is done perfect so it’ll take about  

This was completely thawed and pre-seasoned  so you know somewhere oops somewhere between   like 5 to seven minutes in the air fryer at  380 works and I know it’s still hot but I’m   okay with wilted spinach and some of my salad  you might want to wait till it cools but boom  

There’s lunch this is for my husband and I and  my kids they typically like to make a sun butter   and jelly sandwich and call it a day but yep  so here’s lunch super easy and this is lunch  

When I don’t want to cook next up is an easy  pasta idea when the pasta takes 3 minutes to   boil and the sauce is already made here I  have boiling water I’m going to add some salt vodka sauce and I want to go ahead  and start warming this up put that in

There okay I’m going to put this is one pound of porcini mushroom tortellini into my  boiling water and it’s only going to   take 3 to four minutes to cook and this  is already simmering I have it at a low heat

Okay so this is pretty much done I’m going to take  this out and put it right into my simmering sauce oh okay got to turn this water off there we go so I’m just going to stir this and actually,  

I’m going to shut the heat off because  everything’s done I’m going to get some   Parmesan cheese sprinkle that right on top  some fresh parsley there we go and that’s   tortellini and a store-bought pasta sauce  and that’s lunch an easy lunch or dinner so

Good now I know this breakfast one  is last but this is my favorite   easiest breakfast to make it’s toast with a cup of tea so I love a good cup of tea with crusty  toast with butter and my favorite jam or  

Preserve comment down below how you take  your toast so I know there’s not much to   this it’s not much of a recipe but  it’s what I do when I don’t want to cook so I hope you found these  recipe ideas helpful especially  

When you don’t want to cook I  will see you in the next video bye